The McDowell family loses 24-year-old son Jimmy in Vietnam in 1972. His cause of death is not entirely clear to younger brother Peter McDowell fudged with shame and mystery. Despite a June 1972 telegram arriving to advise the family of his death is the cause of death on the death certificate the truth? The contentContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Jimmy in Saigon”: Who Jimmy Really Was”
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The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Together We Stand”: It Was Not I But We
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival screened from 6-16March2025. “Together We Stand” is a Greek documentary focusing on the 1973 occupation of the Polytechnic University in Athens in protest against the military dictatorship in Greece that seized power on 21April1967 and surrendered it on 23July1974. Through archival news footage, photographs, interviews of the participating studentsContinue reading “The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Together We Stand”: It Was Not I But We”
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Where Are They”: Missing After the 1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival wrapped up today 16March2025. “Where Are They” is a Greek documentary revealing the ongoing attempts to locate 1,619 Greek Cypriots “missing” immediately after the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus. The missing are soldiers never registered as Prisoners of War or were civilians. Most of the missing are men butContinue reading “The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Where Are They”: Missing After the 1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus”
King Charles III Launches Out at President Trump Over Canada Threats: Commonwealth Members Will Attack to Defend Canada: Newcastle Upon Brine: 13March2025: Spoof News Services
King Charles launched out at President Trump of the United States this afternoon in a televised statement broadcast on both the BBC and CBC. Speculation is Charles has been humbled by Canadians referring to him as “Bonnie Chicken Charlie” for exhibiting silence of cowardice, relying on the shield of diplomacy, against the continual threats ofContinue reading “King Charles III Launches Out at President Trump Over Canada Threats: Commonwealth Members Will Attack to Defend Canada: Newcastle Upon Brine: 13March2025: Spoof News Services”
Amy Pickenbobber Launches New “Septic Tank Age of America” Line of Merchandise: Spoof News Services: Guelph, Ontario: 24February2025
At a news conference today first grader Amy Pickenbobber of Guelph, Ontario launched a new retail line of products “Septic Tank Age of America” inspired by her MAGA Patriot Squad abduction in Dunedin, Florida earlier this month. Pickenbobber was “relocated for quarantine purposes” to Guantanamo Bay as a guest of the United States Navy. SheContinue reading “Amy Pickenbobber Launches New “Septic Tank Age of America” Line of Merchandise: Spoof News Services: Guelph, Ontario: 24February2025”
Press Release: Vice President Jimbo Nochance Explains United States Free All Inclusive Vacation to Canadian Government Cabinet at Guantanamo Bay
Spoof News Services: 4February2025: Washington “Yesterday evening 60 United States Marine Walrus Special Forces limousines were dispatched to Ottawa, Canada with large “51st” markings on their exterior. Fittingly the vehicles entered through Kingston, Ontario and after a stop at McDonalds for wholesome American food our nation has come to love they proceeded 4 hours furtherContinue reading “Press Release: Vice President Jimbo Nochance Explains United States Free All Inclusive Vacation to Canadian Government Cabinet at Guantanamo Bay”
PRESS RELEASE: Donald J. Trump to be Appointed as Governor General of Canada
President Elect Trump Appointed Governor General of Canada Spoof Wire Services: 27December2024: Ottawa, Ontario: Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister Soon to Be Unelected announced today the Government of Canada has appointed President Elect Donald Trump as Governor General of Canada who will therefore become His Majesty’s representative in the Government of Canada. Prime Minster Trudeau expressedContinue reading “PRESS RELEASE: Donald J. Trump to be Appointed as Governor General of Canada”
RKS 2024 Film: A Freebie from the Visual Communications Archives: “Comfort Girls”
“Comfort Girls” is a 5-minute short film. The “Comfort Girls” initially appear in a Japanese garden in traditional Korean garb and sing before military officers of nations that have shaped the fate of a divided Korea. The officers sit at a table to a feast ravenously and disgustingly devouring food. The traditional quickly disappears andContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: A Freebie from the Visual Communications Archives: “Comfort Girls””
RKS 2024 Film: “Join the Club”: Politics/Cannabis/AID’s Cali Style All with Retrospect Stupidity: Canada’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival
If you reside in a legal recreational or medicinal cannabis consumption area perhaps you should take a moment to contemplate how “all those dope stores” you hear in frequent negative snippets of conversation may have ended up on the corner. It has been a mighty struggle to legalize both medicinal and recreational cannabis. Many haveContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Join the Club”: Politics/Cannabis/AID’s Cali Style All with Retrospect Stupidity: Canada’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival”
RKS Literature: Why the Aristocrats Heads Rolled in the French Revolution (Charles Dickens)
“We were so robbed by the man that stands there, as all we common dogs are by those Superior beings-taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and forbidden for ourContinue reading “RKS Literature: Why the Aristocrats Heads Rolled in the French Revolution (Charles Dickens)”
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